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Saturday, 25 July 2009

Happy holidays!

Oh, don't you just love the holidays? No alarm clock dragging you from the land of nod at some unearthly hour; no bleary-eyed breakfasts; no counting down the hours 'till bedtime. What? Who am I kidding? The trouble with not 'working' (in the going-out-of-the-door at eight and coming-back-at-five sense) is that the 'holidays' are pretty much the same as all the other days. Same old, same old - apart from not waving Sarah off in the morning, and no school run. Seriously, when you're a stay-at-home you've got to make a real effort to make the holidays seem like, well - a holiday. And if it's bucketing down outside, that can be rather difficult. Still, we managed one day out this week. At first sight Belton House might not seem everything a boisterous 18-month-old and his older sister need, but... It's got a secret:

For a start, there's nobody at home....

.... second, there's one of these:

And third, there's an excellent adventure playground full of things like this:

I remember those care-free days when 'What are we going to today?' was the last question you wanted to hear. Now I have to juggle cars, make sure there's enough food the fridge, try not to get fed up when kitchen is a constant food factory and looks like one. My kids may be independent but boy can they still make a mess when at home.

Looks like a great day out - i know exactly what you mean as Fridays used to be the pinacle of my week awaiting to get sloshed and dance the weekend away - now though i have to wait for Gmtv to tell me what day it is as they all blurr into the next - everyday is groundhog day in the bold house! Holidays well i'm working on it :)

At the risk of making myself desperately unpopular, I love holidays because Flea is such a late sleeper - left to her own devices she's rarely awake before 9.30, so I can get a real lie in at the moment - am making the most of it before school starts!

Glad you're filling the time, we seem to spend half our time in the garden and the other half running back in because its raining! Have managed to write precisely zip, except blog, 3 against 1! Hoping for better garden weather so I can tire them out a bit more!Enjoy the rest of the holidays.

What a great idea taking your kids to Belton House. I love it! Being a great Jane Austen's fan I've been everywhere JA's inspired movies were set and Belton House was the location of Lady Catherine De Bourgh's Rosings in the BBC's P&P adaptation. When my son was more or less Charlie's age we started having the National Trust's membership so we could go and visit all those beautiful houses and parks withoug feeling gulty as almost all of them have got a little children's park as well. Have you ever taken Charlie to the York National Railways Museum (good for bad weather)? All the kids (young and old) love it. Ciao. A.

There is an award for you over at mine and a tag if you have the inclination for such things!I can't find a reason why the feed won't work, I did change the blog name a while back, maybe that has thrown it out? Will have to get MR T to investigate.

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